Jon Stewart Spoofs Anthony Bologna, Pepper-Spraying Wall Street Cop, With Christopher Meloni (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart took a break from his "Indecision 2012" coverage Thursday night to focus on a local problem currently grabbing the nation's attention: the ongoing NYC protest known as Occupy Wall Street.

But it wasn't the spirit of the young people organizing for democracy or even Michael Moore's drop-in that caught Stewart's attention the most. Instead it was the actions of one pepper-spray happy NYPD cop, Anthony Bologna (or, to Stewart, "Tony Baloney").

After a video emerged online of the officer indiscriminately emitting pepper spray in the faces of five female observers who were already standing behind a barricade, people demanded to know who this "human crop duster" was. After it was revealed to be Bologna, a Deputy Inspector for the NYPD, Stewart couldn't take the man's name, or his unacceptable behavior, seriously.

So, instead of chastising Bologna, Stewart did the out-of-control cop one better. He brought in ex-"Law & Order SVU" star Christopher Meloni to impersonate Bologna and his rogue, pepper-spraying ways in what's sure to be the next hit TV crime drama, "The Vigilogna."

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Comments

[LiberalJo]

01:49 PM on 10/03/2011

Awesome... Like always!

On a side note, I really miss Christopher Meloni on SVU. :(

[antiintellectualosity]

03:04 AM on 10/03/2011

meatballs and macaroni

[Tuigim]

12:23 AM on 10/03/2011

Out of control is
arresting 700 people
who are exercising their rights as they call attention to the real criminals.
They were penned, bound, sprayed, made to wait, locked up and their rights violated
so they would feel traumatized and initimidated and would not want to do this again.
Guess what, it doesn't work that way.
The numbers grow when people see how low this country has gone
in its maltreatment of its people.

[LMPE]

08:08 PM on 10/02/2011

Did the NYPD really think that they wouldn't get noticed doing this?

[Charles Burrris]

07:31 PM on 10/02/2011

If the protesters were serious, they would be storming the Harold Pratt House, 58 E. 68th St. at Park Avenue, New York, NY (Headquarters of the Council on Foreign Relations) and the New York Fed, 33 Liberty Street New York, NY.

But they won't be led to confront the gods on Mount Olympus by their Judas goats and media shills. David Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, David Koch and Henry Kissinger might be held up from lunch at 21.

For both supporters and opponents of the Occupy Wall Street protests who seek more incisive background in understanding what has been really going on behind-the-scenes with the Wall Street corporate and financial elites, check out the two items below:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory216.html
"In a Relationship, and It's Complicated," by Anthony Gregory

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard66.html
"Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy," by Murray N. Rothbard

Both articles "name names," and are forthright, direct, and pull no punches.

[Peter Heffernan]

04:15 PM on 10/02/2011

Funny. Now when does the real Bologna get locked up?

[RationalCaliGirl]

01:47 PM on 10/02/2011

Chris Meloni is Tony Bologna, I'd watch that, :))

[enki22]

01:09 PM on 10/02/2011

Jon's brother Larry Leibowitz is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the New York Stock Exchange.

[RationalCaliGirl]

01:44 PM on 10/02/2011

AND?

[emlr]

05:34 PM on 10/02/2011

You joined HuffPo just to post that?!?

[indigoiris715]

01:01 PM on 10/02/2011

Jon Stewart rocks the house! Always insightful and very funny.

[AggieReal]

10:00 AM on 10/02/2011

Would be racist of me to suggest that the NYPD would do well to start recruiting outside of Coney Island, the Jersey Shore and Irish enclaves that have never assimilated.

[Donatella]

09:13 AM on 10/02/2011

The police have become corporate security and the people just peasants to be controlled. We are in a neo-fuedal age.

[Vincent Stevens]

10:46 AM on 10/02/2011

couldn't agree more. when most union people are losing benefits and retirements, police union pensions and benefits are being preserved in some big cities (san diego in particular). The 1% are buying off the police to protect their 'fuedal' territories.

[rtblues]

08:17 AM on 10/02/2011

Huff Post: An American website for people living in America!
Now, since AOL merger, 90% of videos are not available in
Europe.
Screw you and HULU too, can't wait till they go broke :-)
Google the topic, find the video on YouTube.
Been nice knowing you.
Bye.
A - Always
O - Only
L - LAME!

[Rhonnybay]

06:33 AM on 10/02/2011

America never changes. We just are given the illusion that it has progressed. This is a country that has released dogs and water hoses on citizens who have the right for a peace protest. Yes, the police will use pepper spray and other tactics. Some are just waking up to the fact that THIS is the real America.

[RationalCaliGirl]

01:50 PM on 10/02/2011

The fact that it happened to White women is what made this news.

[reviewingthesituation]

02:29 PM on 10/02/2011

The fact that this has been publicized and the police officer blasted and ridiculed all over the world is a big change. This guy will be out of a job, the young women will sue and be compensated generously and the story will pass into protest history.

And you look like you're too young to remember Kent State.

[Pleroma]

08:17 AM on 10/03/2011

The killers at Kent State have never been officially identified or disciplined in any way. If Mr Baloney gets fired I suppose we'll hear about it.

[whatever2]

06:03 AM on 10/02/2011

I loved it. Thanks for the morning laugh. :)

[PTerrys]

03:20 AM on 10/02/2011

How does it feel to be a problem, White Middle America?